"Roman fire? Burst magic? ”

Of course, Ji Yi understood what the caliph and the sultan wanted? He smiled and said, "We don't know what Roman fire is. The burning of the Pujia warship on the Sriwijaya Strait was the fierce fire oil tank, which was extracted from the ground, and the oil tank was a thing that could spray the fire oil out. If you want to get a fierce fire tank, you can send scholars to study at Yuntai University.

As for burst magic, it's just a gunpowder weapon, not a spell at all. However, this envoy will not make it, and if you want to learn, you can also send scholars to study at Yuntai University. Moreover, this envoy also wants to invite scholars from your country and the Roman kingdom in the west to give lectures in the Great Song Dynasty in the East. The Great Song Dynasty and Western knowledge can be exchanged with each other. ”

The design of the fire tank was not a secret to the Arab Empire, and they had something like that for a long time. It's just that I don't know how to refine Roman fire - fierce fire oil, that is, light crude oil, although it can also burn, but it is still far worse than Roman fire. Roman fire is supposed to be a refinement of oil, similar to the presence of gasoline, extremely flammable and explosive!

As for gunpowder, it is not a secret in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are gunpowder filled in folk fireworks. However, black granular gunpowder is a secret, except for the Jiehe Shang City Gunpowder Institute (which is jointly owned by the Shang City Chamber of Commerce and the Yuntai School Palace and several Gewu professors from the Yuntai School Palace), there is no second gunpowder workshop in the Great Song Dynasty that can produce granular black powder.

And the secret of granular black powder, of course, will not be exported to the Arabs. But the method of making non-granular gunpowder, in Ji Yi's opinion, does not have much military value, and can be taught to the Arabs - in fact, Ji Yi does not know that the formula of granular gunpowder and ordinary gunpowder is almost the same, and he thinks that they are two completely different things.

Moreover, after learning about the collection of books in Niezemia University and the academic attainments of the celestial scholars of this era, Ji Yi and Li Gang both thought it necessary to invite a group of Arab scholars to give lectures in the Central Plains.

When trying to translate Euclid's "Geometric Primitive", Li Gang, Wan Sisheng, Wan Mude, Bai Siwen and others encountered great difficulties. Among them, Li Gang, Wan Mud and Bai Siwen did not have a high level of Arabic proficiency, and it was difficult to translate academic anthologies (Li Gang learned Arabic from Wan and his son on the way to Baghdad). Only Wan Sisheng, who had studied at the University of Misenia, had this ability, but Wan Sisheng was not a rational scholar, he was just a religious scholar who had read Aristotle's writings. His natural science skills are very poor, and he can't read the "Geometric Original" at all, so it is naturally difficult to translate.

Translating a Geometric Prima is already so difficult that translating all the vast collections of scholarly essays at Niezemmian University into Chinese is an unimaginably huge project. And to accomplish this huge project, it is absolutely impossible to rely on businessmen or imams who are fluent in Chinese and Arabic. There must be the participation of rational scholars, otherwise the translation will be full of mistakes.

Therefore, Ji Yi wanted to use gunpowder weapons as bait to attract a group of rational scholars to the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, Ji Yi now knows that most of the books in Niedemia University are copied from Rome and Greece in the West. Therefore, he wanted to be an envoy of the Great Song Dynasty to imitate Rome, Greece (which was actually a country) and the Italian peninsula.

"What? Would you like to invite scholars from Rome? Of course, the caliph did not want the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty to come into direct contact with Rome, but he also couldn't detain Ji Yi's mission because of this—Ji Yi had a fleet behind him that was stuck in the Sriwijaya Strait and could exert influence in the Indian Ocean at any time!

If the mission is really detained, the Heavenly Khan of Peach Blossom Stone does not need to send the fleet to Arabia, but only needs to use trade and taxation to support the Ismailis who are enemies of Baghdad (the mainstream of Shiites at that time, with the Fatimid caliphate as the leader), which is enough for the caliph in Baghdad and the sultan of Isfahan to drink a pot.

The caliph and Sultan Mehmed I exchanged glances, and the Sultan said: "Yes, there is no civilization and reason in Rome now, only the barbaric ignorance of Christianity remains. ”

The words of the two were translated word by word by Wan Sisheng, and the old man Wan added: "Envoy, now that the Roman crusades are fighting against the Heavenly Sect, the caliph and the sultan will inevitably worry about our alliance with the Romans......"

Ji Yi smiled, he had long known the thoughts of the caliph and the sultan, and he was prepared, so he said: "Your Majesty the Caliph, Your Highness the Sultan, the purpose of this envoy's trip to Rome is firstly to search for the knowledge of the Roman and Greek sages; The second is to reconcile the contradictions between Celestial Religion and Christianity. As no one in my mission speaks Roman, I would like to invite Mr. Khayyam and Mr. Ansari to accompany the mission to Constantinople and to act as envoys to the mission.

Moreover, the Envoy can also assure His Majesty the Caliph and His Highness the Sultan that we will not establish any official liaison with the other two caliphs, as long as you admit that there is actually only one Peach Blossom Stone. ”

The caliph and the sultan exchanged views in a low voice, and the solution proposed by Ji Yi seemed to be feasible. If Khayyam and Ansari had acted as interpreters for the mission, there should have been no problem.

"Alright then!" The caliph said, "Let Khayyam and al-Ansari, and some other scholars whom we have assigned, accompany your envoy to Rome."

As for whether the war between you and the Qarakhanid Dynasty is an internal affair of Taohuashi, it still needs to be investigated, and it may take a few months to a year. After this matter has been clarified, let's discuss the exchange of books from the University of Niezemia for gunpowder weapons. ”

Ji Yi smiled: "Then let's go to Constantinople first." ”

……

When Ji Yi was preparing to go west to Rome, Wu Haogu was preparing to go east to return to Kaifeng Mansion.

He had been in Shaanxi and Shuofang (Lingzhou now belongs to Shuofang Road) for several months. During this time, in addition to paying attention to the Battle of Anxi, he was supervising the entire army of the Western Army and the Shuofang Army.

Wu Haogu went out of Beijing this time, and at the beginning he was the chief military aircraft of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi, and was responsible for the whole army of the Sixth Road. Later, he added a general military plane of Shaanxi and Shuofang Seventh Road, and he was also responsible for supervising the whole army of Shuofang Road.

According to the plan, the Western Army, excluding the Linlu Army of Hedong Prefecture, will be reorganized into a new army of six generals and stationed in Shaanxi Sixth Road. In addition, there will be as many as 150,000 military households who need to arrange land to live on Sixth Road and Shuofang Road (where the official land on Shaanxi Sixth Road is not enough). This is a huge and complex project, and even with the cooperation of the Western Army, it is not so easy to complete.

After all, the Western Army has been intertwined for so many years, and no matter how hard it is, it is impossible to be reborn in a short period of time. And people are not like the Hexi Army, burdened with the pain of losing the country, so naturally there is nothing that cannot be changed.

After all, the Western Army was adapted as a victor, and everyone was a hero of the imperial court, so how could they not take care of it at all?

However, Wu Haogu is also a good talker, and it will not be too difficult for the general Western Army. As long as he can explain the past, he will turn a blind eye.

The reorganization of the Shuofang Army was much smoother, and the Shuofang Army was a new army, which was originally a system of government soldiers. Moreover, it has been established for a very short time, and there are no intertwined interest groups within it. With the prestige of Gao Yu, Tong Guan and Wu Haogu, what kind of reform will not be able to be changed?

Therefore, when the Western Army was still slowly advancing the whole army, the Shuofang Army had already completed the whole army very quickly. A total of five generals, plus 2,000 knights, a total of 27,000 soldiers. Among them, Lingzhou, controlled by Gao Yu, has one general plus 1,000 knights, and Tong Guan's Shuofang Lu Jingluo appeases the envoy under the jurisdiction of five generals plus 1,000 knights.

However, unlike the Shaanxi Army, although the Shuofang Army also uses the Tianfu soldiers as the main force, there are not as many military households as hundreds of thousands - the military households can only be cultivated gradually, and they cannot be given out all at once. Otherwise, they are all soldiers of about the same age, and what if there is no one in five years? Therefore, the land of professional officers and non-commissioned officers can be granted immediately, but the land of soldiers must be taken slowly. After the expiration of the service period of a group of government soldiers, they may be granted land according to their performance and personal wishes. Because the service period of the military is five years of active duty and 20 years of reserve service, it will take a maximum of 25 years to complete the grant of land to 125,000 military households.

Of course, not all Shuofang Army officers will be granted land. Only officers who are willing to settle in Shuofang and have served in Shuofang's army for a long time can get 1,000 acres of land.

When the Shuofang Army successfully completed the reorganization of the army and the Hexi Army's westward expedition was progressing smoothly, Wu Haogu also got a new appointment in the summer of the first year of Daguan - as the Xuanfu envoy of the Hebei Fifth Road.

The administrative division of Hebei in the Northern Song Dynasty is divided into Jingluo Road and Transfer Road, of which Jingluo Road is divided into Damingfu Road, Gaoyangguan Road, Zhending Road, Dingzhou Road, and the coastal road (coastal city shipping system) set up later, a total of five roads, and the transfer road is Hebei East and West Road. However, sometimes the imperial court will also set up Hebei Road pacification envoys or Hebei Road transit ambassadors, all depending on the actual situation in Hebei, and there is no certainty.

And this time, Wu Haogu is going to serve as the ambassador of Hebei Xuanfu, which is quite famous, but in fact it is a dispatch with limited power and at the same time quite a hand.

Because when the imperial court appointed Wuhao Gu Xuanfu Hebei, it did not revoke the following five meridian routes. At the same time, he did not give Wu Haogu the power to act cheaply and control the five routes, but let him be responsible for the rectification of the Hebei Five Routes Forbidden Army and the establishment of the Xinfu army.

That's a bit embarrassing! Who doesn't know that the Hebei Forbidden Army is tofu scum? And there are a lot of ques, and the internal relationship is complicated, which is very headache.

And the five roads in Hebei have their own pacification envoys and system envoys, except for Mi Youren on the coastal road, the other four road commanders are all concurrently served by the prefect and the governor, they are all senior civil officials, will they listen to the drive of Wu Haogu?

Hebei's whole army, no matter how you look at it, it's a troublesome matter!

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